This is a comprehensive resource for general classroom teachers, music and drama educators. The book provides strategies for including musical theater across the K-12 curriculum, inviting teachers and arts specialists to utilize musical theater as an interdisciplinary art form within their own classrooms, or as collaborative projects throughout the school community. Typically relegated to after-school activities, musical theater can have a strong place both as an avenue for performance, creativity, and self-expression, or as a pathway for student learning about academic subjects. Act I: overview of the art form. Act II: outlines ways of integrating musical theater into the curriculum with considerations for the National Core Arts Standards. Act III: provides suggestions for auditions, casting, rehearsing, and presenting a complete production, with a specific focus on student-centered performances.